Heckel family

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development of bassoon

...by Karl Almenräder, a chamber musician of Biebrich, Germany. Because the improvements were accompanied by deficiencies in tone, the French preferred to develop the classic bassoon. Although the
Heckel family (Johann Adam Heckel and Wilhelm, his son and successor), also of Biebrich, eventually corrected the faults, the difference between the French and the German bassoon still remains, the...

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